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I’ve meant to do this page for a while but some other ideas got in first, and this one is a “nowadays” regular, that it always stayed in my head.

This originally came up from a whole mess when a couple of people, whom apparently English is not their native tongue, I suppose, misunderstood a specific segment of a Captain America story written by Rick Remender. Here’s a link for that story. And with the time since there, other similar stories, where people understand what they want to understand, popped up.

I’m obviously being disingenuous here. It’s not that these people don’t understand English, is that they’re just stupid. But, if you spend any time on the internet (and you do, since you’re reading this) and you step back for a moment from all “discussions” that occur in social media, you’d notice this kind of behavior represented by the good ol’ Queen, happens alarmingly often.

Quoting Bill Burr: “People understand when you’re joking, until you touch on a subject that directly involves them. Then you’re not joking, but making statements“. Self-righteous, instant gratification, fake outrage runs amok, where anyone feels that if they don’t agree with something (and most times they’re the only ones), they have the right to silence, and demand apologies and chopped heads.

Huh. Looked at those links. I can understand the reaction to The Sponsor, though I still think it’s misguided — this is actually a better read of the comic than the one you linked. The satire comes FROM the genderedness of it, not outside of it.

The “Falcon as a rapist” bit is just bewildering to me. I’m not sure how people could read it that way, given that she specifically mentions being well past “of age.” It sounds like it’s a terrible run on the comic that’s had serious issues, but that’s not one of them.

This whole reaction to The Sponsor blew completely out of proportion, especially by the people accusing it of sexist. The genders of the characters are interchangable, it really isn’t the focus of the story, but the sense of failure every author experiments when she or he have been working hard for years and a young face comes along and “becomes successful”. We don’t know the story of this Tess character, how much she struggled to get to where she is, and that’s what drives the point, that they are judging it on face value.
If anything, it got a debate going, which is good.

Yeah, well, that take of the Falcon story is one too common now. People getting too easily offended for nothing, taking their own interpretations and confusing them for facts. I’ve seen that a lot quite recently.